Stephen King tells Rich people to

[wgrr]

Fuck off when it comes to increased taxes for the rich. He joins Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Russel Simmons in calling for higher taxes for the wealthy.

It is real simple. Smart wealthy people know who butters their bread in the morning. What adult, with a family, making minimum wage, can buy a new computer, pay $20 for kings current paperback novel, or pay $16 for a Simmons produced rap CD.

Way to go Stephen king. I knew I bought your latest novel for a reason.

[noonereal]

I heard a story last week about my cousins kid. She had just finished interning at a bakery and graduated college.
She was offered a job at the same bakery to supervise 4 locations.

Everyone was thrilled.

She will make $35, 000.

Sounds great right?

Well that is the equivalent of $8,700.00 in 76.

In other words, in today's world you can have a college degree and the responsibility of 4 retail locations and have to live with your family or roommates to survive.

and this kid also has to pay off student loans? how?

something is very wrong with this country

[Charles]

Originally Posted by noonereal

I heard a story last week about my cousins kid. She had just finished interning at a bakery and graduated college.
She was offered a job at the same bakery to supervise 4 locations.

Everyone was thrilled.

She will make $35, 000.

Sounds great right?

Well that is the equivalent of $8,700.00 in 76.

In other words, in today's world you can have a college degree and the responsibility of 4 retail locations and have to live with your family or roommates to survive.

and this kid also has to pay off student loans? how?

something is very wrong with this country

Something is wrong with the whole damn world.

Chas

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Charles

Something is wrong with the whole damn world.

Chas

yeah but honest, with the wealth in this country to have that kind of responsibility and not even being able to care for yourself is a bit much

working poor after 4 years of loans and happy to be in this position

[merrylander]

Since I have been sort of immobilized with this bad knee I have been watching more TV. Saw a documentary yesterday designed to expunge the idea tha America no longer manufacurers anything. One of the graphics was showing productivity across the country as a series of vertical bars. They showed 2000 then 2011, and the bars doubled their height. Too effing bad the producers of all that productivity did not even get to smell the financial increase.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by noonereal

I heard a story last week about my cousins kid. She had just finished interning at a bakery and graduated college.
She was offered a job at the same bakery to supervise 4 locations.

Everyone was thrilled.

She will make $35, 000.

Sounds great right?

Well that is the equivalent of $8,700.00 in 76.

In other words, in today's world you can have a college degree and the responsibility of 4 retail locations and have to live with your family or roommates to survive.

and this kid also has to pay off student loans? how?

something is very wrong with this country

We have to keep the rich happy or they'll get angry and do mean things to us.

(In other words, satisfy the greediest among us, as if such a thing is even possible.)

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Since I have been sort of immobilized with this bad knee I have been watching more TV. Saw a documentary yesterday designed to expinge the idea tha America no longer manufacurers anything. One of the graphics was showing productivity across the country as a series of vertical bars. They showed 2000 then 2011, and the bars doubled their height. Too effing bad the producers of all that productivity did not even get to smell the financial increase.

Computers and robotics are replacing people. Perhaps one of the reasons that productivity is up.


BTW, what did you do to your knee? Old war injury or old age?

Chas

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

Computers and robotics are replacing people. Perhaps one of the reasons that productivity is up.


BTW, what did you do to your knee? Old war injury or old age?

Chas

True. Now, what do the people do?

And, yeah, I'd like to know what happened to that knee too, Rob.

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

True. Now, what do the people do?

And, yeah, I'd like to know what happened to that knee too, Rob.

We can start by sending the illegal aliens back to their respective countries, then eliminate the teachers unions and make schools competitive. It all starts around an educated populace that has pride and respect for craftsmanship.

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by noonereal

I heard a story last week about my cousins kid. She had just finished interning at a bakery and graduated college.
She was offered a job at the same bakery to supervise 4 locations.

Everyone was thrilled.

She will make $35, 000.

Sounds great right?

Well that is the equivalent of $8,700.00 in 76.

In other words, in today's world you can have a college degree and the responsibility of 4 retail locations and have to live with your family or roommates to survive.

and this kid also has to pay off student loans? how?

something is very wrong with this country

What did you use to get the $8700.00 number?